Wichita eagle., 1887-07-26

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there is no instance on record of more ex-
allied courage and GOODNESS than that displayed
by him on this occasion. Finally they sue
ceeded in leaving the station, and after stop
ping to cut the wires and tear up the track
short distance from town they fastened for
ward as RAPIDLY as steam could carry them.
About tie time that Andrews and bis party
left Kingston Fuller met the first freight train
starting from there on its way south. Jump
ing from his engine, without stopping to ex-
plain any more than was necessary, he
fastened with his men to he station, secured
an engine which had just come in On the
branch road leading to Rome, and again
dashed on in pursuit, accompanied by re-en-
forcements The engine was smaller and
much slower than the Jonah, and he realized
that he was losing ground. When they came
to the place where the rail had been torn out
they again abandoned their engine and ran
ahead until they met the regular freight train,
which the Federals had passed at Adairsville.
They backed the train TO the siding. and tax
ing the engine, the best on the road, continued
the pursuit.
In the meantime Andrews men had filled
their rear cars with railroad ties. and knock
ing out the rear end, dropped them upon the
that nearly all of them would bound off. The
race was continued at nearly the rate of
mile a minute, and to those who are &C
uuainted with the steep grades and sharp
curves it seems a miracle that neither engines
left the track. The fugitives still had no
knowledge that they were being so closely
pursued; a short distance beyond Calhoun
they stopped to cut wire and Aar out
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Oostenaula, which they intended to burn;
just as they had loosened the rail they heard
the whistle of the approaching engine. The
adventurous little land were for a moment
dumb with establishment and CONSERVATION,
but, quickly recovering, boarded their train
and bounded away. The sides and forward
end of the rear car were converted into
kindIing wood and piled up ready to light
when the bridge was reached. They still an
ticipated that they would have ample time
to destroy the bridge, and thus effectually
check pursuit, for they were convinced that
much time would be consumed by the pur-
suing party in tearing up rail from behind
them, and replacing the one that they had re-
moved This was rendered still more difficult
to accomplish because the rail had been taken
up n curve.
What was their astonishment, however, to
see the smoke of the pursuing engine looming
mp III the distance, indicating that ii had
passed the curve! They had gone over it
without checking their speed. and, the rail
having been taken up on the inside of the
curve, railroad men easily understand how the
fiange of the wheel, pressing upon the outer
rail, kept the engine upon the track. Had
the outer rail been removed the engine would
have inevitably been ditched.
Nothing daunted, Andrews directed his men
to remove the kindlngs to the forward car,
and, checking the engine, uncoupled the rear
car to collide with the pursuing engine.
Fuller promptly reversed his engine, met it
without any serious shock, and drove it in
front of him. The second car was uncoupled
on an up grade and sent flying back, but it
was dexterously treated in the same manner.
The bridge was rapidly passed, as there was
not sufficient time to ignite it. The dropping
of the two cars caused the Andrews party to
gain upon their pursuers, and they stopped,
after passing Resaca, to again cut the wire,
and the iron rail which had been torn out at
the curve was placed so as to throw the pur-
suing engine from the track. This also failed
to accomplish the desired object
On and ON the wild chase continued Every
plan that the ingenuity of man could devise
was attempted by the fugitives to defeat
their pursuers, but III vain. The fates seemed
against them. The interesting incidents of
the life and death chase read like q romance.
Since its occurrence a hundred plans have
been suggested that might have been adopted
but they are all more or less impracticable
Capt. Andrews exhibited to the last the same
courage, GOODNESS and good Judgment that
governed him in the outstart and Capt. Full
Ter followed with the same persistence and
determination.
The wire was cut for the last time, and the
track INSTRUCTED two miles beyond Dalton,
Just too late to prevent dispatch from Capt.
Fuller to Gen. Leddbetter at Chattanooga,
notifying him of what had happened. All of
Andrews party clambered upon the tender,
and the last remaining car was set on fire
and left burning in the wooden covered
bridge beyond Dalton. The rain, however,
which had been falling in torrents, had
soaked the wood SO that it did not burn
freely; the blazing car was showed, by the
pursuing engine, upon a side track, and only
slight delay was occasioned. Upon reach.
ing point about twelve miles from Chat
tanooga, the fuel and steam was exhausted,
and the journals of the engine red hot. Here
the last hope was abandoned, and it was de-
termined to separate and take to the woods,
in the hopes that at least some of the party
might reach the Federal lines at Huntsville
in safety If they had only known the hor-
rors they were to experience, they would
have awaited the approach of the enemy,
and, although meagerly armed, have sold
their lives dearly as possible. They had
no idea, if captured, but that they would be
placed upon the same footing as the captured
Confederates under Gen. Morgan, after their
raid in Ohio. They scattered over the hills,
therefore, but after passing through various
hardships and adventures, We're all finally
captured, mostly by cavalry which was soon
sent in pursuit, Capt Fuller, plucky and
tireless to the last, joining in the search
James p. Averill il Cleveland Leader.
"Deushed slow yet" lisps young Mr.. Oar.
win, at Newport, "Dut wait till the jubi.ee's
ever, and you'll see the nobS trooping here
like goats otter the tomato cans-eh, old
chappieT